The fantasy drama A Monster Calls, directed by JA Bayona, is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Ness (in our country it was translated as Seven Minutes to Midnight), who also signed the screenplay for the film about a boy named Conor O'Malley, who is dealing with the illness of his terminally ill mother on the one hand and the bully at school on the other. One night, at seven past midnight, a tree monster visits him to confide in him a story.
A Monster Calls is a spectacular Spanish-English-American fantasy drama by renowned director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Impossible, Orphanage), in which they perform Lewis MacDougall (Pan: Journey to the Land of Nija), Sigourney Weaver (The Eighth Passenger, Avatar), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, The Amazing Spider-Man 2), Toby Kebbell (Fantastic Four), and Liam Neeson (Kidnapped, Survival, Schindler's List), who lent the voice of the monster.
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It's about a 12-year-old boy (Lewis MacDougall) who is too old to be a child but too young to be a man, and he faces the harsh reality (his mother - played by Felicity Jones - is dying, and at school he is the victim of a bully Harry - James Melville) by taking refuge in a fantasy world of monsters and fairy tales, which are about courage, faith and loss. Then one evening she appears at his window a tree monster …
